Michigan football fined 10s of millions of dollars, Moore suspended 3 games in sign-stealing scandal

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By LARRY LAGE
Updated 12:31 PM CDT, August 15, 2025

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars Friday and suspended coach Sherrone Moore for three games for a sign-stealing scandal that has loomed over college football’s winningest program for nearly two years.

Moore, who was already issued a self-imposed two-game suspension by Michigan, will also be banned from the first game of the 2026-27 season for a total of three games. Moore received a two-year show-cause order, but he will be allowed to fulfill coaching commitments and other athletically related activities.

Financial penalties are expected to exceed $20 million and include a $50,000 fine, a 10% fine on the football program’s budget, a 10% fine on Michigan’s 2025-26 scholarships and a fine equivalent to the anticipated loss of postseason revenue for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. Michigan also faces a 25% reduction in official visits during the upcoming season and a 14-week prohibition on football recruiting communications during the probation period.

Connor Stalions, a former a low-level staffer who conducted the scouting and sign-stealing operation, was issued an eight-year show-cause order. Former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh faces a 10-year show-cause order following the conclusion of his previous four-year order effective Aug. 7, 2028.



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[SoFlaBro]

1. Total fucking witch hunt from MAGA shitbags that can't stand Michigan's success.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Exactly who are the witch hunting maga shitbags?

[Johnny2X2X]

8. LOL. Total opposite

Cheaters got away with cheating and lying. UM football is a cult that rivals MAGA.

Largest in field cheating scandal in college sports history. They just didn’t think the rules applied to them. And they got away with it.

[rurallib]

2. With the kind of money sloshing around college sports these days

it won't hurt much.

Money is simply ruining everything

[Irish_Dem]

3. Not enough justice for the lying cheating coaches.

Can’t play football so they cheat to win.

Just like Trump.

[Capt. America]

4. Thank goodness a player didn't try to sell their own

trophies for tattoos versus stealing signs. Then they would have REALLY been in trouble.

[yardwork]

6. I had to read a long time to understand what this means.

I had a completely wrong idea at first.

[MichMan]

7. Most think it was a light punishment, yet Michigan is appealing

MO is to drag it out as long as you can with stonewalling, delays and challenges, and then when the clock finally runs out, state that the players today had nothing to do with it so it wouldn't be fair to penalize them.